Tennessee Senate Bills

Memorials, Death - Charles Goodson -

Memorials, Public Service - Black Dog Fitness (Zach Guza), John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy -

Memorials, Public Service - Don Lindsey, John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy -

Memorials, Public Service - Diana Fisher, John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bo Carey, NFIB Small Business Champion Award -

Memorials, Recognition - Beene Farms, Tennessee Century Farm -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Patricia Jones, NFIB Small Business Champion Award -

Memorials, Death - Jayden Bailey -

Memorials, Sports - Sevier County High School football team -

Memorials, Sports - Duncan Oshumu, TSSAA Division II, Class A boys' cross country individual champion -

Memorials, Sports - Lindsey Snodgrass, 2011 TSSAA Division I, Class A-AA Girls' Track and Field 300-Meter Hurdles state champion -

Memorials, Sports - Tyrell Miles, 2024 TSSAA Division I, Class AA triple jump champion -

Memorials, Sports - Rusty Provins, 2012-2014 TSSAA Class A-AA Boys' Track and Field Discus and Shot Put state champion -

Memorials, Death - Wesley Hazen Rucker -

Memorials, Death - Benjamin Yager Bowman -

Memorials, Interns - Ocean Edwards -

Memorials, Sports - Hunter Mathews, All-County football team -

Memorials, Sports - Jackson Younger, All-County football team -

Memorials, Recognition - Isaac Drinnon, Hamblen County Spelling Bee champion -

Memorials, Sports - Craig Huskey, All-County football team -

Memorials, Sports - Luke Stuart, All-County football team -

Memorials, Sports - John Keohane, All-County football team -

Memorials, Sports - Bobby Broyles, TSSAA Hall of Fame -

Memorials, Sports - Cecilio Rodriguez, All-County football team -

Memorials, Sports - Tyson Sutton, All-County football team -

Memorials, Sports - Elijah Spence, All-County football team -

Memorials, Sports - Brayden Maples, All-County football team -

Memorials, Sports - Jerry Maynord, Tennessee Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame -

Memorials, Recognition - Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, 80th anniversary -

Memorials, Congratulations - Cathy Kolb -

Memorials, Sports - Grassland Middle School Game Day Cheer Team, national champions -

Memorials, Retirement - Irene Ward -

Memorials, Death - Frederick Dale "Freddie" Harvey -

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Steven Emil Johnson, Fish and Wildlife Commission -

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Clay R. Good, public utility commission -

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Robin Morrison, Tennessee public utility commission -

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Randall Davis, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board -

Memorials, Recognition - Safari Club International Day, February 18, 2026 -

Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer who becomes aware that an order of protection has been entered against a person in the officer’s presence but has not been served on the person to take appropriate steps to facilitate service of the order of protection, including notifying the sheriff’s department of the person’s immediate location; requires the curriculum of the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission to include instruction on such requirements. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38 and Title 40.

Industrial Development - As introduced, removes restriction prohibiting county officers from serving on industrial development corporation boards; adds county assessor of property and county trustee as members of such boards. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.

Mental Illness - As introduced, establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person poses an imminent substantial likelihood of serious harm and needs emergency detention and examination if the person was charged with one of certain criminal offenses and ordered by the criminal, circuit, or general sessions court to undergo an evaluation to determine whether the person is incompetent to stand trial or the person's mental capacity at the time of the commission of the crime; requires clear and convincing evidence to rebut the presumption. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 52.

Controlled Substances - As introduced, changes from January 1 to January 15 the date by which the medical cannabis commission must submit its annual findings and recommendations to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

Public Officials - As introduced, requires certain public officials and their spouses to divest certain assets or place such assets in a blind trust by a date certain. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 48.

Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires a court or magistrate to impose global positioning monitoring as a condition of release for a defendant accused of certain offenses, unless the court or magistrate enters written findings that the defendant does not pose a threat to the victim or public safety; requires the administrative office of the courts to compile an annual report of the number of defendants subject to such an order. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds to the criminal offense of aggravated assault, an assault that involves brandishing a deadly weapon; defines brandish to mean waving or exhibiting a weapon in a manner that would be found by a reasonable person to indicate a threat to use the weapon. - Amends TCA Title 39.

General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

Boards and Commissions - As introduced, increases, from 90 to 95, the number of days that the board of directors for a municipal energy authority has to fill a board vacancy created by the death, resignation, or removal of any director and gain approval of the applicable governing body. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 48; Title 50; Title 64; Title 65 and Title 67.

Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits governmental entities from preventing certain persons from entering correctional institutions used to house aliens for the purpose of conducting oversight. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

Abortion - As introduced, states that the report a physician is required to submit to the commissioner of health after performing an abortion may be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 55; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 71.

Privacy, Confidentiality - As introduced, enacts the "Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act"; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for officers, employees, or contractors of a state agency or local governmental entity that is required by law to be issued a warrant prior to obtaining personal information or sensitive data about an individual to knowingly purchase, license, or otherwise obtain the personal information or sensitive data from a controller in lieu of the warrant requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39 and Title 47.

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows a misdemeanor offender to petition to have the offender's criminal history records sealed after completion of all requirements of sentencing and at least five years without being convicted of a new offense; excludes domestic assault and driving under the influence from eligibility to be sealed. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Judicial Districts - As introduced, requires the advisory task force to review composition of judicial districts to submit its findings and recommendations by January 15, 2027, rather than January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 16.

Veterans Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a report on the total number of state and federal benefits, and a synopsis of each benefit, available to a veteran and the veteran's surviving spouse to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives on or before January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 52; Title 68 and Title 71.

Ethics - As introduced, enacts the "Foreign Agent Registration Act." - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 4.

State Government - As introduced, enacts the "Critical Infrastructure Protection Act" and the "Protection of State Land from Foreign Adversaries Act." - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 66, Chapter 2.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the amount of marijuana that may be possessed, from one-half ounce to five ounces, for it to be considered a small amount of marijuana and punishable as a Class A misdemeanor; revises penalty to make it punishable by a $500 fine for a first offense and a $1,000 fine for a second or subsequent offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

State Employees - As introduced, requires certain government employers to provide job-protected unpaid leave for a qualifying medical emergency to employees that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 50.

Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Supporting Troopers though Advanced Retirement (STAR) Act"; authorizes current state troopers to elect to participate in an alternative defined benefit retirement plan that offers enhanced benefits; authorizes state troopers participating in the alternative plan to elect to defer retirement and continue working full-time for up to eight years while their retirement benefits are deposited into an interest-bearing account until they elect to retire. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7 and Title 8.

State Government - As introduced, enacts the "No Corporate Land Giveaways Act." - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 12.

General Assembly - As introduced, requires a state governmental entity to disclose records and information to a member of the general assembly to enable the member to determine whether the laws of this state are being complied with and to determine whether the laws of this state need to be changed in accordance with certain procedures. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.